Owen Reynolds Personal blog

Author: Owen Reynolds

  • TrueNAS build log

    I’ve tried TrueNAS off/on for years, however,until June, I’d never put any serious workloads for my home lab setup on it. This blog posts covers my current / future plans for TrueNAS The need My storage needs for my home lab are two-fold Over the years, I’ve covered both requirements via different means. For the…

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  • Let’s buy an SUV

    Let’s buy an SUV

    I spent a TON of time researching the purchase of my past 2 cars. Completing 29 test drives in 2021, I then hit ⏸️and resumed again in May 2022 when I bought my house, eventually ending on a Subaru WRX 2011. The WRX was a lemon 🍋, and manual transmission was no longer the right…

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  • Let’s plant a tree

    Hello and welcome to summer in Montreal, Canada! As the ground is no longer frozen, it’s time to re-start my outdoor yard tasks This post will cover the work I completed to install a small (ish) Berry White Hydrangea tree in the north-west corner of my yard. This particular corner was in rough shape, having…

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  • Alabama & Arizona

    I’ve been watching Peter Santentello’s YouTube travel channel for a few years now. Peter’s channel is part of the the reason I pay for YT, as his videos are often 1-2 hours, and I’m not keen to getting dozens of ads listening to his content (and more) each time I queue one up. On his…

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  • My method for better decision making life (™️)

    My method for better decision making life (™️)

    Intro First of all, today’s topic is based on accepting that there is such thing as “free will” Sorry Robert Sapolsky, I’m not seduced by your proposition that “free will doesn’t exist” , yet 😉 If you’re not familiar with Robert’s work, his take on “free will” is that we are “running on rails” ;…

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  • Monitor upgrade for #2024

    I’ve been WFH in one form or another for 11 years (2013 to 2024). As part of working from home, I want to ensure my home setup is optimized. This includes ergonomics, productivity , sound, function and ascetics (plants, window view) Each element has improved over the years, however, until the first week of January…

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